Means for coupling derrick-guys and the like.



P. B. MGGAGHEY. MEANS FOR COUPLING DERRICK GUYS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION TILED APR. 12, 1910. RENEWBDNOV. 7, 1912. 1,047,965.

Patented Dec. 24, 1912.

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PA ENT onFIo PETER iaj viecnennr, or LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK."

I Specification of Letters Patent.

MEANS FOR COUPLING DERRICK-GUYS AND THE LIKE.

Patented Dec. 24., 1912.

Application filed April 12, 1910, Serial No. 555,020. Renewed November 7, 1912. Serial No. 730,109. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER B. MoCAeHEY,

-a citizen of the United States, and residing at Little Falls, in the county of 'Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Coupling Derrick-Guys and the Like,,of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to improved device of this class having a large radius which will prevent the cracking or kinking of the guys or cables, and also prevent the loops of the separate guys or cables, where coupled or connected, from coming in contact, thus avoiding the wear of the strands composing the guys or cables, and

the liability of the separation of such strands and the danger and expense caused thereby; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified, constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a view showing the method of using my improved cable coupling device; Fig. 2 a side view of the coupling device detached, and ;F ig. 3 a plan View of the device as shown in Fig. 2.

In the practice of my invention I provide a coupling device of. the class specified, which is shown at a, in use, in Fig. land detached in Figs. 2 and 3, and said device consists of two semi-circular or segmentally formed parts a and a which are integrally connected and cross each other at right angles, the'ends a of one part projecting in a direction opposite tothat of the ends a of the other part. p

The convex surfaces of the parts a? and a are provided with deep groovesa", and the concave or inner surfaces thereof are provided, in the form of construction shown, with radial ribs a which'extend from the ends a of each of the partsof the devic'eto the groove a or the edges thereof in the other part of the device. The ribs a enable 'the device to be made lighter or of less metalthan would otherwise be necessary and also serve as guides to hold the cables or the end loops thereof in the grooves a In Fig. 1 I have shown two cables 7) and c coupled or connected and the use of my improved cable coupling device in connection therewith. In this operation it is customary to form the ends of the cables into loops 6 and c which are interlocked in the operation of forming said loops, and inpractice my improved coupling device is employed as shown in Fig. 1, the end portions of the cables being passed around the parts a and a of the coupling device in the operationof forming said loops and said end portions of the cables being secured to the main parts thereof at b and c in the usual or any preferred manner. With this construction the cables or the loops 6 and 0 thereof do not come together and there is no friction between said cables, the only friction being between the cables and the partsa and a of the coupling device, and the formation of said coupling device is such that there is no and 0 and the friction occasioned by the use of said cables 1s reduced to a minimum.

short bend in the cables or in the loops 6 My improved coupling device may be of any desired dimensions according to the size of the cables to be coupled, and the convex curve of the separate parts a and a of the coupling device may be formed on any desired radius.

Having fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I 1. A coupling device of the classdescribed,

portions of the other part extend, the convex surfaces of said parts'being providedwith grooves.

3. A coupling device of theclass described, comprising two curved parts, which cross composed of two segmentally curved parts" each other at right angles, the end portions In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 10 of one part extending in a direction oppomy invention I have signed my name in site to that in which the end portions of the presence of the subscribing witnesses this other part extend, the convex surfaces of 7th day of April-1910.

said parts being provided with grooves and the concave surfaces of each part being pro- PETER MCCAGHEY' Vided With ribs which extend from the ends Witnesses: thereof to the edges of the groove in the GEORGE J. OCoNNoR, outer part. WINIFRED A. WALSH.

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